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Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by 20after4 »

ipsum2 wrote: post #49
abbe98 wrote: post #12

I always had a good experience with Phabricator, especially its customization/dashboards. Wikimedia still uses it[1]. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

It's a shame that Wikimedia couldn't donate money to Phabricator for it to stay alive, considering it raised ~$30mil in 2019.

Wikimedia has been maintaining a phabricator fork for years and have sponsored upstream with monetary contributions on more than one occasion.

It doesn’t seem like there is much interest in finding ways to keep phacility alive.

Note: I work on phabricator at Wikimedia. My opinions do not necessarily match those of the foundation and I’m speaking from personal experience not from any position of authority.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#92

Post by eitland »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #62
beaconstudios wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

being LAMP stack doesn't make software bad or otherwise more likely to fail commercially. The whole web (excluding some older perl/cgi-bin stuff) was built on it before Rails became popular.

I don't see anything in that comment about good or bad. I do see at least some information about what Phabricator is .

Point is the description is about as useful as describing a car as an cage with an engine and wheels.

Yes it is correct.

But it can be anything:

- a car

- a truck

- a trailer with a power generator

Phabricator was a (very) different take on the same class of tooling as GitLab: source code management, task management, code reviews etc integrated.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#93

Post by junon »

glandium wrote: post #47
iamcreasy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Blender and KDE uses Phabricator as well.

Add Mozilla, Mercurial and LLVM to the list.

LLVM switching off will be a big deal. They might even move to Github after this as they moved their repositories to github, too.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by Nemo_bis »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #69
Aeolun wrote: post #29

This post about shuttering operations is quite devoid of reasons. I can’t imagine customers would be happy about that.

I mean, if you're whole company is shutting down (as opposed to being sold and carrying its goodwill with it), it doesn't really matter what your customers thing anymore--you won't be around for them to think badly of.

Well, it's possible to donate or transfer assets as part of a liquidation.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#95

Post by jsiepkes »

20after4 wrote: post #88

Phabricator has been a huge part of my career. Having spent the past 11ish years maintaining phabricator installs this really hit me hard. Fwiw phabricator is very stable and maintainable code. I would be happy to work with anyone who is interested in collaborating on a community maintained fork.

First OTRS goes closed source and now Phabricator decides to call it quits.

The Wikimedia foundation seems to be a bit on a bad luck streak regarding some of the OSS projects it uses. Would be really cool to see a Phabricator fork though. Especially the issue managment is unmatched in my opinion. Having a single pool of issues works way better then having issues per repo if your working in an organization.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by aseipp »

unixhero wrote: post #89
rachelbythebay wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.

That sounds fun! What did it do?

It was the reviewers "Approve" button for a submitted patch. The options are/were (approximately) "Reject", or "Clowncopterize"

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by Nemo_bis »

rachelbythebay wrote: post #18
nine_k wrote: post #13

To clarify: this applies not just to phabricator-dot-com, but Phabricator the software: https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/commit/9ceb66453501... This is unexpected. Many companies, among them as well-resourced as Facebook, use Phabricator. I wonder if it will be forked soon by some party interested in keeping it around. OTOH it looks like none such party exists, because the public sources have not been updated…

FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.

Do you mean Facebook is running a fork of Phabricator, or what?

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#98

Post by nindalf »

Nemo_bis wrote: post #97
rachelbythebay wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.

Do you mean Facebook is running a fork of Phabricator, or what?

Facebook’s diff tool looked similar maybe 5 years ago but there’s been constant improvements to it in that time. There was a dedicated team maintaining and improving it. Today it bears only a passing resemblance to Phabricator.

GP’s claim that Facebook uses Phabricator is an overstatement.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#99

Post by dmitriid »

smitty1e wrote: post #28
Dylan16807 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this post has absolutely zero context.

Try to give it some, get mod bombed. So it goes.

Your "context" was about as useful as noting that this post went out on a day of the week. Or that there's weather outside.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

#100

Post by Dylan16807 »

eitland wrote: post #92
Dylan16807 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see anything in that comment about good or bad. I do see at least some information about what Phabricator is .

Point is the description is about as useful as describing a car as an cage with an engine and wheels. Yes it is correct. But it can be anything: - a car - a truck - a trailer with a power generator Phabricator was a (very) different take on the same class of tooling as GitLab: source code management, task management, code reviews etc integrated.

And if I ask "What the heck is a camry?", then that vague description is much better than nothing.

> Phabricator was a (very) different take on the same class of tooling as GitLab: source code management, task management, code reviews etc integrated.

Great. If you made that comment 11 hours ago then maybe some downvotes on smitty1e would have been justified. Instead it's "how dare you improve the situation somewhat!".

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